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During the D23 Expo, Disney announced that some upgrades will be heading over to Disneyland and that these new attractions will take visitors to the magical land of 'Wakanda'.

The news was announced during the Disneyland parks panel and the upgrades come in the form of a new ride that will be added to the Californian Avengers Campus phase 2. This new ride will be featured in the corner of the campus that is directly Black Panther themed and visitors will get to experience a flight from Avengers HQ to Wakanda.

What kind of ride would this be if its visitors didn't get to experience an epic Avengers-level fight? Disney have of course included this, as visitors will be thrown into a major fight scene with an undisclosed villain at the end. The Avengers Campus is currently under construction and the park is scheduled to open sometime during 2020.

Nickelodeon Animations are celebrating their internal annual Super Smash Bros. tournament and what better way to build the hype then to dish up a epic crossover poster.

Nickelodeon's SpongeBob Squarepants storyboard artist, Kurt Snyder is to thank for the above crossover poster that features the same layout as the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate one but features iconic Nickelodeon characters. Snyder has also gone above and beyond to converge the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate character positions and features with the Nickelodeon characters.

The first thing that has popped into my head after seeing this is what would Nickelodeon characters look like in Super Smash Bros.?They would certainly have to retain their cartoon look for authenticity purposes, but how would they play? Take Spongebob Square Pants for example, would his range attacks be him blowing bubbles? Could he form into a cube and smash into the ground like Kirby? Nickelodeon character move-sets are a strange but awesome thing to think about, and if Nickelodeon characters ever did make it to Smash I think they would be a massive nostalgic hit.

NASA will be hosting a Reddit 'Ask Me Anything' (AMA) in a couple of days, this will no doubt spark Flat Earthers rallying to the Reddit board with numerous questions.

If you haven't heard about Reddit 'Ask Me Anything's then you have truly missed out on some of the greatest internet information harvesting events. The 'Ask Me Anything' sub-reddit is one of the most subscribed to Reddits on the platform as celebrities, high-profile businessmen, scientists, influencers and people alike take to the platform to answer community voted questions.

The people that are doing the 'Ask Me Anything' provide credible information for who they claim to be and proceed to answer any which question the community has provided them at their discretion. While you might think that they could go south since its the internet, and the internet can certainly be like the Wild Wild West, these events have actually provided some quite valuable information.

NASA has upgraded the International Space Station's data transmitting and receiving capabilities in a venture to sustain and provide high quality operational services to future exploration missions.

The International Space Station is currently located in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), and since it serves as a extremely effective controlled outpost to the infinite vastness of space, NASA has decided to upgrade its data transmitting capability in both sending and receiving data transfers. The new announcement sees the ISS be upgraded to a 600 megabit connection up (sending) and down (receiving) connection.

George Morrow, the acting center director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center commented on the upgrade, saying "NASA's communications networks play a pivotal role in every NASA mission, enabling data from human spaceflight, space and Earth science research missions and technological demonstrations to reach Earth for the benefit of humanity. This increase in data rate capability for the International Space Station underlines our commitment to provide high-quality operational services for NASA exploration missions today and in the future."

The release of Disney's new goliath streaming platform is almost upon us, and the company is currently in full swing with trailer releases and announcements.

Above we have the cult classic 'Lady and the Tramp''s official trailer, and if you didn't already notice by first glance this movie will be a live-action remake of the cartoon version. According to Firstshowing, this movie will be dodging theaters and heading straight to the new streaming platform in November when the service launches.

'Lady and the Tramp' is no doubt one of the movies Disney is using to sway people into grabbing a subscription to their new service, and do you know what, I'd say that its going to work. Disney's library of content that will be available on their platform at launch and what they have planned for the future is going to be simply immense. Just to name a few there is: 30 Seasons of The Simpsons at launch, National Geographic Documentary series', a new Star Wars series and not to mention additions to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Clickbait isn't just something online, as it has become somewhat real with Netflix picking up the thriller that will be produced in Melbourne, Australia.

Australian film and TV creator Tony Ayres will be involved, as well as Harry Potter producer David Heyman and Christian White. Ayres is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of Clickbait while White acts as the co-creator, co-producer, and writer. Anderwon will sit in the directors chair for the 8-part series.

Clickbait will look into the dangers of social media, and the chasm between our digital selves and our real-world selves. No casting has been announced yet, but we should expect news on that soon.

I don't know what would scare me more, seeing a hurricane off in the distance -- or a stealth bomber flying over it and dropping a nuclear bomb inside of it. Yeah, that's what President Trump wants to do.

Axios reports from sources who have heard the president's private remarks and been briefed on a National Security Council memorandum that recorded those comments "that in a meeting between President Trump and top national security and homeland security officials over threats with hurricanes, Trump said: "I got it. I got it. Why don't we nuke them?"

Trump continued: "They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that?"

HPE has teamed with NASA on future supercomputer collaboration, with HPE providing its new Aitken supercomputer for future missions to the moon. HPE and NASA Ames Research Center have signed a four-year, multi-phase partnership over its Aitken supercomputer.

NASA will use HPE's new Aitken supercomputer for its Artemis program, which will see humans returning to the moon in 2024. Artemis will be handling calculations, modeling, and simulations of entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the moon.

Inside, HPE's new Aitkin supercomputer is based on HPE's SGI 8600 HPC platform, which is a tray-based, scalable supercomputer cluster.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is powered by Crytek's CRYENGINE with developer Kingdom Come: Deliverance confirming that its sequel will also use CRYENGINE.

Warhorse Studios PR boss Tobias Stolz-Zwilling talked with Gamepressure recently, with the site asking if the developer would use CRYENGINE or not. Tobias replied: "We're not planning to change anything - simply because we made so many tools and so many things with the engine, adjusted it".

He continued: "It was never used for any RPGs before we did it. We did so much with the engine that we are afraid that changing it would mean starting from the beginning. And if you think of how long we needed to make the engine work for KCD before we could just start to... work with it - just too long. And hope on a good cooperation with CryTech".

PewDiePie has just reached a massive milestone, the first single person (not a group) that has reached 100 million subscribers on YouTube. YouTube itself celebrated the milestone:

Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg started his massive YouTuber journey with Minecraft and funnily enough, it is time for Minecraft's time in the limelight again with its resurgence in many ways. NVIDIA recently teamed with Microsoft for Minecraft with RTX, and it looks out of this world.

Indian music channel T-Series is home to the #1 subscribers on YouTube at 109 million, but PewDiePie's celebration is bigger - he's one person hitting 100m subscribers but he also got married this week. Some gigantic milestones for PewDiePie, that's for sure.

Razer is opening its largest store in the world on September 7, with the gaming giant set to open the doors to its new Las Vegas gaming store to Vegas-based gamers.

The new store is massive inside of the LINQ Promenade at a huge 2400 square feet through two floors, as both a "gaming hangout" that doubles as a social space, and somewhere that Razer can sell its vast range of gaming products.

Razer will have 10 gaming stations in the lower floor that will be home to esports tournaments, while the second story has a streaming lounge for online broadcasters. Razer will have a massive (and I'm sure super-awesome) 16-display wall that will be playing livestreams and competitions.

Control is coming out next week, but Remedy is already working on its next project. It just won't be released any time soon.

Remedy games are special and take a while to bake in the oven, but once one batch is done another goes right on the rack. As an indie studio, Remedy has to constantly jump from project-to-project in order to stay afloat, so it often starts planning its next game way before its current game is finished. This iterative process sees all previous games influencing the later ones, like Alan Wake 2 fed into Quantum Break which then morphed into Control.

Now Remedy talks about its upcoming projects, including a new AAA title and games in its new Vanguard live service team. We knew as far back as 2018 that a new AAA game outside of Control was in planning phases, but in a recent earnings call Remedy says the project is now in early dev stages.

Star Citizen is a money-printing machine that's always releasing massively expensive ships, and the latest costs $675 (it's not even the most expensive either).

Star Citizen, the game that may never be completed, recently revealed a new $675 ship called the Aegis Nautilus, a large-sized Squadron 42 military ship that lays two types of mines (sentry and homing mines). The Aegis Nautilus also sports dual S7 guns. Gamers affirm this is a niche ship, and many criticize Roberts Space Industries for not making more progress on the game's promised features including the big Squadron 42 singelplayer mode.

This is actually quite normal for the game and it routinely releases ships that cost as much as $1,200 a piece. Star Citizen even has a pack that costs $27,000--you can either buy a bunch of ships or a brand new car.

With its samurai blades, fluid wall-running, and replayability, Ghostrunner could be the next big arcade hit.

Ghostrunner looks to be an extremely addictive and fun romp in the vein of Superhot, complete with one-hit kills. But unlike Superhot, this stylish cyberpunk slasher has you jumping, sliding, dashing, sprint-strafing and wall-running like a Tenno--all in first-person. The areas are much more open-ended and fleshed out with high-tech visuals, reminding me of Midgar fused with Deus Ex's Utelek facility. And your only weapon is a dual-handed katana that slices and dices badguys. There's also instant respawns so you can jump right back into the action and try again; do or die, there is no try.

The project is being developed by indie devs One More Level and published by All In! Games, and even has a mission-based storyline with actual objectives. There's also a grappling hook. I mean what cyber-ninja would be complete without a grappling hook?

Microsoft is investing heavily into PC gaming, and UWP might not be a part of that plan.

Gears of War 5 on PC will use the more flexible Win32 API in both its Steam and Windows Store versions instead of the more closed-off Universal Windows Platform (UWP) framework. Senior community manager Liam Ashley confirmed the news on Twitter.

After recognizing the limitations and frustrations with UWP, Microsoft initially promised that more of its games sold on its digital PC storefront would support Win32. This move comes after Microsoft tried to unify its first-party PC games using the Windows 10-exclusive UWP, which would've nixed support for legacy Win32 apps and games. This fledgling attempt culminated in a wonky games launcher that was missing key features and added extra steps for developers.

Introducing Bleak Faith: Forsaken, a new supremely weird action RPG that blends bizarre art styles, Dark Souls survival combat, and nightmarish environments.

Bleak Faith: Forsaken looks pretty intense. It's the type of game that'd make Giger and Beksinski proud, up there with the likes of Scorn, and looks like a collaboration between Guillermo Del Toro and FromSoftware. Hell I think even Bryan Fuller of Hannibal TV show fame would be impressed. The game was successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter with $30,000 in pledges, and is described as an open-world survival-horror action RPG with some serious freaky overtones and visuals.

Horrid monstrosities straight out of Del Toro's nightmares stomp around, weird demonic ritualistic music plays in the background, and the overall visual flair is post-apocalyptic otherworldliness mixed with medieval sword-and-board mystique. We didn't get to see much combat or gameplay in the trailer, but the Bleak Faith: Forsaken is still heavily in development.

Activision is blamed most for Destiny 2's overmonetization with microtransactions, season passes, and piecemeal expansion purchases, but Bungie says the publisher gave them tremendous power with the series.

Destiny has changed over the years, and for a bit Destiny 2 was an expensive hobby that required separate purchases of multiple expansions and a season pass for good measure. Microtransactions were thrown in too. This was all a result of Activison's attempt to "re-engage" (which really means re-monetize) Destiny 2's playerbase with Forsaken content. It was quite contentious and the attempt didn't work. Shortly after, Activision jettisoned the Destiny franchise because it was "tying up our resources" and sold it back to Bungie, who now holds publishing rights to the Destiny franchise.

Despite the live service red tape, Bungie is thankful for Activision's help. Years ago, Activision put up a whopping $500 million to fund Destiny across a big ten-year plan that culminated across three mainline releases. Without the publisher, Destiny would've never manifested--at least not in the way it did.

Disney's new $6.99 a month streaming service Disney+ has some big advantages over Netflix, and will let subscribers stream 4K content at no extra cost.

Disney isn't playing around with its new service. Disney+ is shaping up to be a titanic endeavor that offers classic Disney films, all Star Wars films, a smattering of Marvel movies, and a ton of original shows like The Mandalorian, a new Home Alone reboot, and The Simpsons.

The biggest selling point of Disney+ is its price compared to Netflix, but Disney+ also offers extras like no-cost 4K streaming and letting users stream to up to 4 screens at once per account. Netflix charges $15.99 for 4K UHD streaming and 4-screen streaming, and $12.99 a month for 2 screens and HD streaming. Disney+ on the other hand includes both for $6.99.

Not everyone wants in on Epic's lucrative exclusivity deals. Some publishers like Bandai Namco still want maximum long-term reach instead of short-term gains.

Epic is still spending big money on exclusivity contracts to fill up its games store. But its Fortnite billions can't buy everyone. Even as major players like Ubisoft and Take-Two jump on the Epic Games Store for that big 88-12 revenue split, Japanese games-makers like Bandai Namco simply aren't interested in trading exposure and potential sales for upfront cash or promised earnings. Japanese publishers like SEGA, Capcom, and Bandai Namco are still relatively new at PC ports but they still recognize the power of Steam's massive userbase.

Now Bandai Namco says Epic's exclusivity really isn't part of its grand vision--a vision that sees the company selling its games to 2 billion gamers worldwide. In order to do that they can't pick either Steam or the Epic Games Store. It has to be both or the biggest one.

We all knew it was coming, and now it has been not only confirmed -- but a trailer, and a release date for the Breaking Bad movie is here. It is called El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, with its trailer below:

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is coming to Netflix on October 11, with the trailer squared on Skinny Pete who won't tell teh authorities where Jesse Pinkman is. The movie is written and directed by Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, with Aaron Paul returning to star as Jesse.

Netflix explains El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie: "In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future".